Last year a woman who runs a networking group for mums came up to me and told me how much she enjoyed my books, my work and how much she wished she could have me speak at her event.
“If only you were a mum!” she finished with, “then I could have you along, but oh well.”
There are so many things wrong with that sentence but let me just start with this one.

Being child free for me is a choice. One that I’m incredibly grateful for. My now-husband and I sat down about a year after we got together and decided that having children just wasn’t for us.